My Message as a Patient

As a patient, I cherish the freedom to choose a healthcare professional who adheres to life-affirming standards of care.

I want my healthcare professional to remain free to care for me according to time-tested patient-protecting standards such as the Hippocratic Oath, moral and religious principles, the Nuremberg Code and other longstanding standards of medical ethics.

I oppose taxpayer-funded abortions, mandating participation in abortion and any unlawful discrimination and intolerant coercion that threaten women's access to healthcare by forcing life-affirming healthcare professionals, hospitals and clinics to choose between violating ethical commitments or leaving the practice of medicine.

I support laws, regulations and policies that protect and preserve the freedom of healthcare professionals to care for patients without being forced to participate in abortion and other ethically controversial practices.

Removing the federal civil rights regulation noted below, which protects such professionals from discrimination, will negatively impactmy access to the healthcare professionals of my choosing.

Therefore, I urge the President, officers of his administration and Members of Congress to protect my freedom to choose life-affirming healthcare professionals--by preserving existing federal civil rights laws and the existing U.S. Department of Health and Human Services regulation (published 12/19/2008) that implements those laws, and by specifically excluding abortion in healthcare reform legislation.